When: Friday, November 20, 2009 9:00 AM - 5:00 PMWhere: Friedl 225More Info
Description: Filmmaker: Carma HintonGuest Speakers: Michael Renov (USC, keynote); Bruce Cumings (Chicago); Zhen Zhang (NYU); Hyangjin Lee (Sheffield)Contact: orichm [Email: orichm #AT# duke.edu ] or 668-2603
Co-sponsors: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University Center for International Studies, Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), (…)

  ethics, film, human rights, politics

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When: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Where: White 107 Lecture HallMore Info
Description: A BBC documentary producer is given unprecedented access in North Korea to chronicle the story of the famed 1966 World Cup team from the North that advanced to the quarterfinals. The feature includes interviews with surviving members of the team, English fans and soccer pundits who saw the (…)

  film, human rights, politics, soccer

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When: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:00 PM - 9:00 PMWhere: Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium
Description: Lilian Thuram, Caribbean-born French soccer player, activist and writer, is well-known both for his successes on the turf and for his frequent political interventions off of it. He will share his thoughts on sport, racism, and immigration as well as discussing the work of his new foundation: Fondation (…)

  Caribbean, culture, human rights, politics, soccer

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At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama, turned heads when he told the audience at the Democratic National Convention, “There is not a liberal America and a conservative America… there is the United States of America.” Likewise, French President Nicolas Sarkozy attempted to create the illusion of a non-partisan world by recruiting members of the French (…)

  politics, working group

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Fall 2009 Seminars

September 17 (Thursday)
Location: Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Professor Joanne S. Gowa, Princeton University
“Institutions & Outcomes: The GATT/WTO & Postwar Trade”
Click here for Professor Gowa’s biography
Background reading: “Institutions & Outcomes: The GATT/WTO & Postwar Trade”

October 8 (Thursday)
Location: Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Professor Michael D. Ward, Duke University
“International Trade Networks & International Institutions: The Role of Democracy & the WTO in Contemporary Trade”
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  democracy, economics, Global Governance and Democracy, globalization, human rights, politics, University Seminar

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Jean Toche: Impressions from the Rogue Bush Imperial Presidency, opens on September 17 in the main gallery of the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and runs through November 29, 2009.

Kristine Stiles, professor of art, art history, and visual studies, curated the exhibition from her extensive archive of art, artists’ letters, documents, posters, and ephemera. A 48-page (…)

  art, culture, gallery exhibition, politics

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Ecology, Ideology, Politics: A Roundtable Discussion

When: Friday, April 17, 2009 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Where: Friedl Atrium
Cost: Free
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Description: Please join the Duke University Center for International Studies and the Polygraph collective for a roundtable discussion with Tim Morton and Kathy Rudy.

Friday, April 17 | Friedl 115 | 5-7pm

Food and drink will be provided. Questions? Contact: polygraph [Email: polygraph #AT# duke.edu ]

Tim Morton is Professor of (…)

  ecology, governance, graduate students, politics

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